"Any change is opportunity for improvement but also we need to manage the risk of transitioning to new organisations and all of the work that goes into doing that," he said.

"One of the things that we're concerned about is the continuity of services in rural and remote areas as there's uncertainty in the environment, we don't want to lose health workforce and disrupt continuity of care for consumers.

"We're aware that the Primary Health Networks are going to be fewer in number than the current Medicare Locals and therefore bigger, so we want to make sure that local context and understanding is maintained in the new structures and it's not big city running all of the health services for the state."

The Federal Government is expected to make an announcement regarding the new networks later this month.